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Speaker 2: now from the Legendary Honors in Sullivan Broadcast Studios. The

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Speaker 3: to speak with yaiel Ekstein of the International Fellowship of

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Speaker 3: Christian and Jews before the show's over to get an

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Speaker 3: update on all things related to the Hanukkah shooting in Australia.

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Speaker 3: part of the Leadership Institute's publication called Campus Reform. What

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Speaker 3: today along with Katie McFarlane Katie is one of these

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Speaker 3: He'll meet them there. That's the promise. Dave Stone, host

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Speaker 3: Focus on the Family, coming back tomorrow to continue this discussion.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much. It's Kevin mcaullugh, Uncle.

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Speaker 7: We're talking about a very short sentence in the Fourteenth

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Speaker 1: For the first seventy years it was in place.

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Speaker 3: what actual Americans want.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Unfortunately, I'm afraid that that's true. And that's, for example,

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you, the Court doesn't take everything that

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Speaker 3: How do you what do you read from that reaction.

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Speaker 7: They took it because they realize they've got to make

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Speaker 1: So this is this case is just as.

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Speaker 7: Significant as remember almost twenty years ago. Now when they

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Speaker 7: I have no doubt whichever way they go. But what

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Speaker 7: They made it very clear that birthright citizenship would not

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hansvan Pisbokowski, thank you for breaking it down for us.

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Speaker 1: Sure, thanks for having me you.

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Speaker 3: Get to all that and more on the second hour

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Speaker 3: to quote shield auto pen presidency files. So here's what's happened.

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Speaker 3: Former President Joe Biden requested executive privilege amid the congressional

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Speaker 3: to me, Like they thought, yeah, sure, well yeah, of course,

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Speaker 3: the speaking as as the former president, Biden requested, saying,

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Speaker 3: I am concerned that the disclosure of these materials would

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Speaker 3: had the autopen sign it gob kidding he didn't. He

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Speaker 3: that law, that action, that order for the military. So

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Speaker 3: here's here's the bottom line. If you can't sign your

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Speaker 3: I don't know how they get into colleges not being

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Speaker 3: able to do first grade math. But San Diego State

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Speaker 3: University did a whole study on it. Only eighty four

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Speaker 3: the records now proposed for release include documents reflecting presidential

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Speaker 3: by executive privilege. Translated, my crew was talking in email

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Speaker 3: try to keep Congress from finding out what's there. That's

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Speaker 3: basically a literal translation of that paragraph. He also says,

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 3: White House counsel David Warrington, responding to Biden, said, as

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Speaker 3: And I can't think of any reason why the autopen

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Speaker 3: Hey A couple of things that I'm very, very curious about.

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Speaker 3: The Venezuelan stuff doesn't seem to be dying down or

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Speaker 3: That's just what they're going to do. But do you

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Speaker 14: It'll be over by then, It'll be over before the election.

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Speaker 14: And here's why. But there's really a two pronged strategy

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Speaker 14: European Now how does this stuff move? Because it's again,

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Speaker 3: And Putin's glad to do that. Just chew up, you know,

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Speaker 3: his forces slowly and methodically for years and years, and

868
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Speaker 3: you know, even if it's in you know, one inch

869
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 3: a day, like just through attrition, we're out the other side.

870
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Speaker 3: That's sad because Trump has done so much for the

871
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 3: rest of the planet and yet we haven't been able

872
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 3: to find a breakthrough on that. And I don't I'm

873
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 3: with you, I don't think that there will likely be one.

874
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 3: Let me shift gears to the anti Semitism issue. The

875
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 3: attack in Australia, of course just heartbreaking by every level.

876
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 3: But we you know, yesterday and I had a big

877
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Speaker 3: monologue on this yesterday, Kat. The Fox News written reports

878
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 3: on that story versus the UK Telegraphs written reports on

879
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 3: that story were so different. The Fox piece, quoting primarily

880
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 3: Australian sources, refused to mention Islam, refused to mention largely

881
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 3: Jews or Hanukkah. The UK not only had the names

882
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,240
Speaker 3: and identity of who the shooters were, but they already

883
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 3: had some information about what schools the Sun had been

884
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 3: radicalized at, and even more in information coming from there.

885
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 3: It seems to me, and sadly, even this was, you know,

886
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 3: a Fox piece, it seems that that there is a

887
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 3: concerted effort to try to minimalize radical Islam when it

888
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 3: acts out, and that is I think encouraging the attacks

889
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 3: against Jews at a greater rate. Am I wrong?

890
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Speaker 14: Oh, you're absolutely right. Every leader in the world should

891
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 14: come out and make a strong statement here we are

892
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 14: in Hanukkah, and they should say, just even if it's words,

893
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 14: they should say, the Jewish people are noble people. They

894
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 14: have phone rights and responsibilities of any of our citizens,

895
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 14: and anti Semitism will not be tolerated by anybody.

896
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Speaker 15: And they won't do it.

897
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Speaker 14: Now, why won't they do it? A lot of it

898
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Speaker 14: is because Australia and you think, youre wow, why is there?

899
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Speaker 14: Who are the Muslims in Australia? Where are they coming from? Well,

900
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Speaker 14: Australia was one of the countries that welcomed in a

901
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 14: lot of my memory, like a lot of the Europeans did.

902
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 14: And so they now have an issue. They never had

903
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 14: a problem like this before. Now they have an issue.

904
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Speaker 14: The European countries they have an issue, and yet they're

905
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 14: leaders in part because the leaders worry about the votes.

906
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 14: There's now such a significant number of Muslim immigrants who

907
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 14: really do believe in all the things you know that

908
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 14: we're so worried about in the United States, and yet

909
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 14: they're a voting block, and so in narrow elections, political

910
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 14: leaders aren't going to have the personal courage to come

911
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 14: out and call out anti Semitism. They're not going to

912
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 14: have the courage to call out from us. And I

913
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 14: think that's what we're seeing. And in the absence of

914
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Speaker 14: the courage to call it out, it's happening.

915
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Speaker 5: No, it is.

916
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Speaker 3: And you know what, Katy is happening here. I mean,

917
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 3: all you have to do is look at the little

918
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Speaker 3: Somalia block that has done all of the you know,

919
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 3: defrauding of the government in Minnesota to understand that it's

920
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 3: a group of people large enough that it scares politicians

921
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Speaker 3: into inaction. And I'm not saying that Keith Ellison or

922
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 3: Governor Waltz or even elon Omar would have been like,

923
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 3: you know, a Christmas choir angel to begin with, But

924
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 3: when you have, you know such and it's not even

925
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 3: it's not even a group of people that wish to assimilate.

926
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Speaker 3: They are here, they don't want to learn our language,

927
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Speaker 3: they don't want to adopt a pluralistic or an ecumenical

928
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 3: approach towards tolerance with other people's faith. There is there

929
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 3: is a horrific day coming I think from the from

930
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Speaker 3: the seeds of what have been planted there. And I

931
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Speaker 3: and I regret that we are in a similar situation the.

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Speaker 14: European ajority there, they're already having these massive problems of

933
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Speaker 14: societ norms are being ended. We have those kind of

934
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Speaker 14: problems in these districts, as you pointed out, in the

935
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Speaker 14: Midwest and Minnesota and other places. By and large, our

936
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Speaker 14: illegal immigration has come from people who buy into the

937
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Speaker 14: same system that were we buy into no jiujeo, Christian

938
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Speaker 14: pro family, et cetera. And now maybe you're illegally and

939
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Speaker 14: I'm not talking about the ones committing crimes, but that

940
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 14: is a group that's much easier to assimilate than what

941
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Speaker 14: Europe has. May never assimilate.

942
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be it's gonna be problematic. And you know,

943
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Speaker 3: I really we're just stays away till the new year,

944
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 3: and we have a mayor coming into New York City

945
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 3: that you know, kind of feels the same way as

946
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Speaker 3: those groups of people do. And it's it is. It

947
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 3: is a frightening reality to understand that we have done

948
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 3: this to ourselves. We left the door open, Mom said

949
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Speaker 3: closed the door at night, we didn't close the door,

950
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 3: and what we have allowed in and in Biden's term, Yeah,

951
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 3: there were a lot of you know, Latin Central and

952
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 3: South Americans that you know, may have some vague, you know,

953
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 3: resemblance to you know, God and you know what we believe.

954
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 3: But there were a lot of people that got across

955
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 3: that border that we had no clue where they came from.

956
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 3: And it was a different time of illegal immigration. All right,

957
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 3: Katie always always appreciate your insights, and thanks for hanging

958
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 3: out with his follower on x at Real Katie McFarlane,

959
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:11,439
Speaker 3: and we'll talk to you again next week.

960
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 14: Thank you.

961
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Speaker 3: Kevin, got be well, Kevin McCullough, coming right back. We've

962
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 3: got more to get to, including Emily Sturge a bit

963
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 3: later on some really cooky Christmas stuff for college kids.

964
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 3: You're not gonna believe this. You're gonna have to hear

965
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 3: it for yourself. Kevin McCullough. It's that Kevin show prizas time.

966
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Speaker 16: Change.

967
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 17: Here he is from New York, Kelly, Kevin McCullough.

968
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 18: Then I serve on Bible by the window Christmas see

969
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 18: page is warm by the words alive, And they started

970
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 18: speaking peace feard and said good news for all, and

971
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 18: I felt Heaven see the joy I've been chasing.

972
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 3: Found me and the story of a king.

973
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 19: Now I'm running, strumming, coming with the age nor singing glory,

974
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 19: hallelujah for the news, on for it, stop's tale, shine

975
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 19: the metal tale, shine for my soul's employ And the

976
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 19: best news ever given, the forever greatest choice, the best news.

977
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 3: Ever given, the best news ever given, as we know

978
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 3: it to be the Christmas story where Jesus came to

979
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 3: earth and lived his life and did so so that

980
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 3: we could know eternity with God in the way that

981
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 3: God the Father had created us and had wanted, had

982
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 3: longed for a relationship with us. That is the season's

983
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 3: greatest joy. That's the message of Christmas, and that is

984
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 3: the voice of Charlie Gibson, who's part of the Tea Collective.

985
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 3: Truth Elevated Artistry, I think is what that stands for,

986
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 3: the Tea Collective, and that is part of the Christmas CD.

987
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 3: It's not a CD, it's a recording that we're going

988
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 3: to give to every person that makes a donation of

989
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 3: any size to the effort to liberate slaves this Christmas.

990
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 3: Why not give you some Christmas cheer as a thank

991
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 3: you for making a contribution to help liberate slaves in

992
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 3: Sudan this Christmas season. Now, the best gifts were given

993
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 3: them is their freedom. The best gift that we're giving

994
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 3: them is a life that they have long since believed

995
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 3: that they would never see again. Most of these girls

996
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,959
Speaker 3: taken when they were in their teens or even younger

997
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 3: and have lived fifteen twenty twenty five years in slavery.

998
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 3: But friends, for a one time gift of two hundred

999
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 3: and fifty dollars, you can liberate a human being eight

1000
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 3: eight eight three four two ten ten eight eight eight

1001
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 3: three four two ten ten. The liberation happens, and then

1002
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 3: they need a bag of hope to get their whole

1003
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 3: life started over again with that's the majority of what

1004
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,919
Speaker 3: your two hundred and fifty dollars provides. Food for a year,

1005
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 3: tarps and blankets, seeds to plant for future food, utensils

1006
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 3: to clean and cook and fish and garden with all

1007
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 3: of the things that they need to kind of start

1008
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 3: their life over again when they return home to South

1009
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 3: Sudan from their slave masters in the north. And the

1010
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 3: other thing they get is a little she goat that

1011
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 3: they can make milk and cheese and other kid goats with,

1012
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 3: and when they do, it gives them a source of income,

1013
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 3: a little micro enterprise that helps start their life all

1014
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 3: over again. Friends, It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen.

1015
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 3: And again, if you make a gift of any size

1016
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 3: today eight eight eight three four two ten ten, you're

1017
01:01:57,120 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 3: going to get the Tea Collective's Christmas album called Such

1018
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 3: Tiny Shoulders. It's all about the tiny shoulders of Jesus

1019
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 3: taking on the big weight of the world on top

1020
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 3: of that, and we would love to send that to you.

1021
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 3: It's just our way of saying thank you for being involved.

1022
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 3: Two hundred and fifty dollars liberates one slave. There are

1023
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty five names left on the list

1024
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 3: that we are trying to eliminate before the end of

1025
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 3: this year. Give them their freedom this Christmas. Eight eight

1026
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,439
Speaker 3: eight three four two ten ten eight eight eight three

1027
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 3: four to two ten ten, and take a listen to

1028
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 3: how much of a difference it makes.

1029
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 16: I was a child when I was abducted by the Arabs.

1030
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 16: My parents used to own livestock and my mother would

1031
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 16: do all the cooking for us. I don't remember the

1032
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 16: year that I was captured. There had never been any

1033
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 16: problems in our village. Then one day, all of a sudden,

1034
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 16: we heard that there were Arabs attacking dink of villages

1035
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 16: throughout the South. We were so worried we couldnt even

1036
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 16: sleep at night. It was a big concern to my

1037
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 16: mother and my father. We were told that these Arabs

1038
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 16: were heavily armed and would kill all the animals and

1039
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 16: people when they would attack. We were very scared. Then

1040
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 16: one morning they.

1041
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 6: Attacked our village.

1042
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 16: We scattered in different directions and I ran, but I

1043
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 16: was captured. My entire village was burned down, and I've

1044
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 16: never seen a member of my family since.

1045
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 10: Then.

1046
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 16: I was taken north into slavery. My eyes saw horrific

1047
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 16: things on that trip to the north. Women were raped

1048
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 16: right in front of us, men were beaten, and four

1049
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 16: men were killed because they tried to fight back. They

1050
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 16: were shot dead before our eyes. Once at the slave

1051
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 16: master's house, I was pretty much starved and worked brutal

1052
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 16: hours every single day, doing difficult and very very hard work.

1053
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 16: There was no lief, and then they raped me. My

1054
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 16: slave master did not think of me as a human.

1055
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 16: He will not even let me go to the hospital

1056
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 16: when I fell sick, and one day I heard that

1057
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 16: there was a slave retriever from CSI close by. How

1058
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 16: I wanted to be free. That retriever secured my freedom,

1059
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 16: and thank god I was able to return to South

1060
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 16: Sudand thank you to each of you who helped the

1061
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 16: slaves be free. But please don't stop until we get

1062
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 16: them all.

1063
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: It's a reasonable request.

1064
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 3: The phone number is triple eight three four two ten

1065
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 3: ten eight eight eight three four two ten ten, and

1066
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 3: your gift right now of only two hundred and fifty

1067
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 3: dollars will liberate another girl like a hoak, the one

1068
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 3: you just heard the story from. The names may sound

1069
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 3: different to our Western ears, but their hearts, their desires,

1070
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:02,920
Speaker 3: their lives are no different than your own daughters. Friends,

1071
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 3: if you believe that slavery is evil, and if you

1072
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 3: believe that we should be here to make a difference,

1073
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 3: then please do pick up the phone eight eight eight

1074
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 3: three four two ten ten eight eight eight three four

1075
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 3: two ten ten. You can also give online by just

1076
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 3: going to bring her home dot org. Let's bring her

1077
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 3: home dot org or eight eight eight three four two

1078
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 3: ten ten. That's triple eight three four two.

1079
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Speaker 9: Ten ten.

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Speaker 18: Here he is.

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Speaker 1: Come.

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Speaker 3: Who you are that Kevin, Kevin mckella, Welcome back to

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Speaker 3: Times Square. It's Calvin McCullough, that Kevin Show, that kevinshow

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Speaker 3: dot Com. Thank you for taking us with you in

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Speaker 3: some five hundred new cities this last month. Thank you

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Speaker 3: to Salem Network, Phil boy Stave Central, everybody up the

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Speaker 3: chain that made that happen. Thrilled to do so. Glad

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Speaker 3: to welcome back someone who we've always enjoyed having with us.

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Speaker 3: She is a reporter for Campus Reform and she follows

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Speaker 3: these stories that are really rather significant, even though they

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Speaker 3: don't make the mainstream very much in terms of the content.

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Speaker 3: Emily sturges her name and as I said, Campus Reform

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Speaker 3: reporter Emily, it's good to see you again.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 3: If we don't see you again before then you just

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Speaker 3: highlighted a story about some students that are having such

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Speaker 3: a tough time this time of year, coping with exams

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Speaker 3: and trying to somehow survive, and colleges are really doing,

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Speaker 3: you know, like elite level therapy for them.

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Speaker 1: What are they doing?

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Speaker 20: It's great to be with you, Kevin.

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Speaker 15: Look, it's exam season on university campuses across the country

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Speaker 15: and college is are coddling students with childish activities and

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Speaker 15: playful distractions instead of setting them up for success on

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Speaker 15: their exams. And I've got some examples to point to.

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Speaker 15: And Anna, for example, is doing giveaways of care bears,

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Speaker 15: hosting a PJ party for students. There's a community college

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Speaker 15: in Washington that's providing students with Plato. And at the

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Speaker 15: University of Chicago, Illinois, we have engineering students. They are

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Speaker 15: in making friendship bracelets and playing with slime.

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Speaker 20: I don't know about you, but I don't.

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Speaker 15: Think this sounds like rigorous academic institutions. That sounds a

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Speaker 15: lot more like a kindergarten birthday party to me.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's interesting. We had Erica Donald's on

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Speaker 3: the show earlier and she was talking about how there's

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Speaker 3: this brand new study out of San Diego. Is it

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Speaker 3: County or San Diego State? I think San Diego State

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Speaker 3: University that just did a tracking study of college students

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Speaker 3: and the level of math that they're able to to

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Speaker 3: do in the study that they just completed and published,

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Speaker 3: and less than nineteen percent of students that are at

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Speaker 3: the college level are capable of doing eighth grade level math,

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Speaker 3: which is pre algebra. Only eighty four percent of students

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Speaker 3: were able to complete first grade level math, which is

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Speaker 3: addition subtraction, and third grade was something in the seventies

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Speaker 3: mid seventies, seventy three seventy five percent were able to

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Speaker 3: do it. But even if you have one out of

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Speaker 3: four that can't add subtract emily, that's really really bad.

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Speaker 3: What is the purpose of college? And that happens to

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Speaker 3: be the same school that's got the male volleyball player

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Speaker 3: pretending to be a woman on the female team. What's

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Speaker 3: the purpose of college if all you're doing is taking

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Speaker 3: people that don't know much to begin with, kind of

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Speaker 3: creating a safe space for them to play with their

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Speaker 3: care bears and Plato And then to what end that's

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Speaker 3: an expensive babysitting session.

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Speaker 20: Exactly. There are so many issues in this story.

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Speaker 15: First off, universities are absolutely erasing standards in both the

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Speaker 15: classroom and admissions itself, and that's exactly why we are

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Speaker 15: seeing declining academic ability in our nation's classrooms. Look, America

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Speaker 15: should have the greatest education system in the world, and

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Speaker 15: we are at a point where we're seeing declining academic ability,

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Speaker 15: both at the college level and also the K through

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Speaker 15: twelve level. Our nation's report card revealed that, I mean,

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Speaker 15: there's elementary students that are just not proficient in math

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Speaker 15: and reading, and then these students get to college. They

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Speaker 15: can't write an essay without artificial intelligence. They can't meet

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Speaker 15: basic expectations.

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Speaker 20: In the classroom.

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Speaker 15: This goes back to universities need to reform themselves, need

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Speaker 15: to reform classrooms, need to hire the best and the brightest,

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Speaker 15: And going back to these childish activities that universities are.

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Speaker 20: Providing for students this exam season.

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Speaker 15: Look, universities say that they're providing these activities to help

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Speaker 15: students de stress and cope with the stress of exams.

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Speaker 20: But the real stress you.

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Speaker 15: And I both know it's going to come when these

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Speaker 15: students are applying to jobs after graduation and they are

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Speaker 15: getting rejection emails.

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Speaker 20: And I'm not just saying that. That's a very harsh.

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Speaker 15: Reality that many students are facing right now. At the

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Speaker 15: Leadership and Students Campus Reform, we're reporting that it's only

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Speaker 15: twelve percent of college graduates that are securing a job

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Speaker 15: before graduation. And that's because these college grads they're not

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Speaker 15: leaving with skills. They are leaving with degrees and a

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Speaker 15: lot of debt. Degrees that provided playtime with care bears,

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Speaker 15: but not real world skills that they can take to

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Speaker 15: the workforce or society.

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Speaker 3: It's one of the reasons why I increasingly question the

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Speaker 3: value of a university education. And at the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, it's almost like if you had more kids

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Speaker 3: going into the trades, if you had more kids exploring

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Speaker 3: other options. There's lots of good paying jobs for people

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Speaker 3: that can actually do things, but underwater basket weaving and

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Speaker 3: lesbian studies and playtime with care bears. This isn't This

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Speaker 3: isn't the kind of stuff that the job market is demanding.

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Speaker 3: And I think we were so well for so long,

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Speaker 3: and it was so kind of scary for even kids

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Speaker 3: to speak up on campus and say, but wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: why does any of this matter? But I'm hopeful that

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Speaker 3: we're turning a corner. Emily, is that what we're seeing

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Speaker 3: our kids fighting back?

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Speaker 15: Yes, And I will say it actually is the popular

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Speaker 15: view the majority of Americans at this point in time.

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Speaker 15: We are reporting at Campus Reform, the majority of Americans

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Speaker 15: actually say that the cost of college is just no

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Speaker 15: longer worth it. And when we're talking about all of

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Speaker 15: these silly things happening on university campuses, I want to

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Speaker 15: point out it's not an entire.

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Speaker 20: Generation that is buying into this.

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Speaker 15: Generation Z is not a generation of snowflakes. And we

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Speaker 15: know that because this is also the generation that is

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Speaker 15: leading the military recruitment boom.

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Speaker 20: Look, there are eighteen.

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Speaker 15: Year olds lining up to join the military. All the

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Speaker 15: military branches have met their recruiting goals this year because

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Speaker 15: of Generation Z. This is also the generation that fue

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Speaker 15: old President Trump's return back to the White House. This

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Speaker 15: generation has swung to the right. This is not a

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Speaker 15: problem with young people. This is a problem with universities.

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Speaker 15: Cities are infantilizing students and erasing standards in the classroom.

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Speaker 15: That's why we see declining academic ability. Like we spoke about,

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Speaker 15: this goes back to reforming the institutions themselves so that

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Speaker 15: they can help set Generation Z up for success.

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Speaker 20: In the workforce.

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Speaker 3: You recently wrote an obed about some advice you were

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Speaker 3: giving Gen Z. Just give us a little preview of

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Speaker 3: what that was.

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Speaker 15: Absolutely so, tuition is one of the biggest expenses that

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Speaker 15: Generation Z is facing. We're talking a lot about affordability

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Speaker 15: in the American dream right now in the news cycle,

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Speaker 15: and gen z needs to remember when they are choosing

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Speaker 15: their college that they should choose a college based off

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Speaker 15: two things. I say, academics and affordability. They should set

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Speaker 15: themselves up for success and not a six figure tuition bill.

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Speaker 15: The college that a student decides on when they're eighteen

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Speaker 15: years old is going to determine how much debt they

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Speaker 15: have for the rest of their life and also the

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Speaker 15: skills that they take to the rest of their life.

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Speaker 15: And so I wrote an op ed with some advice

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Speaker 15: for students about picking college based on academics and affordability

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Speaker 15: and then also picking a major that leads to real

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Speaker 15: world skills that they can take to the workforce and get.

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Speaker 14: Hired one day.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's good advice, and I want people to go

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Speaker 3: and check it. Where can they read it if they

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Speaker 3: want to go on their own.

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Speaker 15: Absolutely so it is published at the Washington Times website,

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Speaker 15: and I'm reporting new stories every single day at campus.

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Speaker 14: Reform dot org.

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Speaker 3: Don't miss Emily's work there. It's every day. It's the

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Speaker 3: best that's being done on the topic. Emily, good to

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Speaker 3: have you back, Thanks for being here.

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Speaker 20: Thank you so much, my friend, and Merry Christmas to you.

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Speaker 3: Back at you, I'd like the snowflakes on the sweater.

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Speaker 3: Snowflakes belong on sweaters, not in schools. Kevin McCalla coming

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Speaker 3: back from Times Square.

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Speaker 17: I'll stay with us, Gavin mccallaugh, that Kevin show.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you for being right there where you are.

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Speaker 3: as we wrap up. I keep coming back to something

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Speaker 3: simple today and profound. Dave Stone reminded us of it

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Speaker 3: when he was with us in John chapter eleven. At

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the show, Jesus meets Martha and he

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Speaker 3: gives her truth. Jesus meets Mary and he gave her tears,

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Speaker 3: same lord, same moment, completely different needs, and he didn't

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Speaker 3: confuse them. That matter because it tells us something about

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Speaker 3: leadership and justice and discernment. Truth without compassion can wound,

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Speaker 3: Compassion without truth can actually mislead. Christ offered exactly what

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Speaker 3: was required, not what was convenient, not what was expected,

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Speaker 3: but what was right, and that theme echoes across kind

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Speaker 3: of everything else we dealt with today. Hans von Spakowsky

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Speaker 3: walked us through the constitution, remind us that words matter,

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Speaker 3: that laws mean what they say and not what we wish.

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Speaker 3: They said. Birthright citizenship isn't an emotional slogan. It's a

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Speaker 3: constitutional question. The court is going to take it up.

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Speaker 3: When we blur the legal meaning to satisfy a political appetite,

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Speaker 3: we're not becoming more humane, we're becoming less honest. Katie

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Speaker 3: MacFarlane then pulled the curtain back on a world that's

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Speaker 3: far less stable than the headlines led on ghost ships

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Speaker 3: skirting embargoes, oil moving in the shadows, anti Semitism rising,

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Speaker 3: not quietly but boldly. These are not abstractions, the reminders

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Speaker 3: that evil doesn't always announce itself. Sometimes it slips through

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Speaker 3: loopholes through silence or through wilful blindness. And then we

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Speaker 3: just heard from Emily Sturge, who showed us what's happening

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Speaker 3: on campuses. Institutions meant to shape minds now insulating students

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Speaker 3: from discomfort or challenge or reality itself care bear style,

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Speaker 3: preparing them not for finals but for fragility. And a

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Speaker 3: generation taught that discomfort is harm will never be ready

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Speaker 3: to defend truth when it actually costs something. Now, put

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Speaker 3: all of this together and a pattern emerges. We are

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Speaker 3: living in a moment that desperately needs what Christ modeled

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Speaker 3: in Bethany, clarity paired with compassion, truth anchored in love, courage,

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Speaker 3: guided by wisdom. Not every problem needs the same answer,

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Speaker 3: not every soul needs the same approach, but every moment

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Speaker 3: demands integrity because when processes collapse, justice collapses. When truth

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Speaker 3: is optional, power fills the vacuum, And when we forget

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Speaker 3: how to weep and how to stand firm, we lose

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Speaker 3: our way. So tonight be my hope. Let's remember this

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Speaker 3: Leadership isn't about volume, faith isn't about performance, and justice

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Speaker 3: isn't just about winning. It's about showing up with the

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Speaker 3: right response at the right time, grounded in truth, shaped

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Speaker 3: by compassion, and unafraid of what the cost is. That's

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Speaker 3: where and how Christ met Martha. That's how he met Mary,

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Speaker 3: and that's the standard that we should expect of ourselves

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Speaker 3: and of those entrusted with power. And that's why we

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Speaker 3: have this discussion on a daily basis to help us

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Speaker 3: be better at it. None of us are perfect, We're

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Speaker 3: all in process. But facts do matter, Context matters, and

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Speaker 3: compassion leads the way. Kevin mccallaugh, so glad to have

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Speaker 3: you with us. If you've got any thoughts, that Kevinshow

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Speaker 3: podcast page at Salem Podcastnetwork dot com. I'd love for

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Speaker 3: as much as you can. Kevin McCalla, We'll see you

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Speaker 3: next time.